The Adventures of Flipper
The sixth cut on the CD Beach Bar Serenade, is the song "The Adventures of Flipper"...which goes a little something like this.
"The Adventures of Flipper"
By Don Middlebrook
Down in St. Louis there’s this guy named Flipper
Who loves to play his conga drums
Sometimes he plays and plays and plays
Sometimes for beer, sometimes for fun
One night he was playing a gazillion hours
When out of a St. Louis blue he just stopped
And while others were going to bed
His face turned red
And said, somebody please take me to the Waffle House
Double smothered, covered and topped
He knew the menu from the left
He knew the menu from the right
Every item cold or hot
Double smothered, covered and topped
Start a new tradition
Save a starving musician
Won’t you take me to the Waffle House
Now keep in mind, at this particular time
It was almost 3:00 a.m.
And all his drunken monkey friends were pretty lit
I know because I was one of them
But he begged and pleaded and banged his drums
Won’t you take me to the Waffle House
But as he looked the place over
There was nobody sober
That’s when he spotted the hotel cop
Double smothered, covered and topped
He worked his way right over to the corner
And said, hello there, Mr. Cop
Double smothered, covered and topped
Please change your job description
Save a starving musician
Won’t you take me to the Waffle House
Double smothered, covered and topped
They were chin to chin and the cop started to give in
And Flipper, he wouldn’t stop
Double smothered, covered and topped
My friends think this hotel is a damn paradise island
Come on you and me buddy, I’m buying
Won’t you pleased take me to the Waffle House
Now legend has it, at this fateful time
Flipper and the cop became one
And they sealed the deal
For that late night meal
When Flipper let the cop play his conga drums
And after a couple of slaps
They slipped out the back
And I heard Flipper offer up a bonus
After the Waffle House, my friend
If you pull by the ATM
I’ll buy you a dozen donuts
Double smothered, covered and topped
Flipper and the cop drove by three IHOPS
Just to go party with Kid Rock
Double smothered, covered and topped
It’s now a religious conviction
To save a starving musician
And they call the party, Flipperstock
Double smothered, covered and topped
Look for the fins to the left and the fins to the right
And the good times never stop
Double smothered, covered and topped
It’s a new tradition to save a starving musician
Won’t you take me to the Waffle House.
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